Hillesheim Eifel Quotes & Sayings

In addition to labeling kids who learn differently as problematic, sometimes defective, most schools classify, track, and categorize students from very early ages. As an abundance of research studies confirm, these classifications tend to become self-perpetuating and self-confirming. My interviewees illuminate the ways in which grades, tests, and opportunities to learn are often arbitrary or related to class, race, and gender. In the supposed meritocracy of schooling, these markers and estimations have profound impact, not just structuring how we fit into the learning hierarchy of an individual classroom, but who we are who whom we believe we will become. — Kirsten Olson

We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves. — Katherine Boo

Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. — Michael Stipe

For that is of course what it means to read a novel and live in it for a while. You are viscerally inside someone else's reality. You feel and understand things you have not known before, and that is both scary and exhilarating. The world becomes more clear, reality more vivid, and your own experience larger. Of course there will be questions. This probing is how we grow and enlarge our sense of the world itself. — Dorothy Allison

The power to reach our goal is always in the moment. When the moment arrives, be ready to perform the action that will help you reach your goal, and be aware when the moment is now. — Russell Eric Dobda

You're a defiant act of creation. You're a whole solar system pretending to be a person. — Elisabeth Hewer

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right. — Stella Young

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game. — Jaron Lanier

I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day. — Donnie Wahlberg

The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord. — Lady Jane Grey

In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman. — Bill Simmons

Put faith in one who's had experience. — Ovid

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences
even if you're right. — Buffy Andrews

I'm glad I was never an heiress. — Antonia Fraser